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TIL People with Cystic Fibrosis are extremely dangerous to eachother

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e0Non TIL that when the La Tomatina was banned in 1957, poeple carried a coffin with a huge tomato in it as a sign of protest. The festival was permitted.
awaEM TIL Tracy Chapman's big break came when Stevie Wonder couldn't find a disk at a Nelson Mandela birthday tribute show in London
6EpyW TIL of the Shiva Crater, an impact crater off the Arabian coast, caused by an asteroid Comet about 66 million years ago. The Indian mainland had just broken off from Africa and Dinosaurs roamed all over India then. This collision along with others probably eradicated them.
grlJA Today I learned The Lost Generation is the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s.
XlRj TIL that human races do not exist taxonomically. A fixation index of 0.25 is required for a species to have various sub-species. Humans have a fixation index of 0.11, less than half of the required criteria of genetic diversity needed for the existence of sub-species or races.